Book Island - Book Reviews by Writers

It's spooky season! In this episode, Lisa breaks down her thoughts on Peter Straub's Ghost Story.

Following Lisa's review of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote last episode, Tim dives into Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.

In this Episode, Lisa shares her thoughts on a true-crime classic, Capote's In Cold Blood, and it's lasting legacy on the true-crime genre.

This week Lisa unpacks Bri Lee's latest work, 'Who Gets to be Smart'.

This week Tim dives deep into his read of Garth Nix's The Left Handed Booksellers of London, while Lisa shares her thoughts about Stephen King's The Shining.

This time Lisa and Tim dive into Melissa Lucashenko's Miles Franklin winner, Too Much Lip.

This week Lisa and Tim chat books, while Lisa asks the hard questions!

This week, Tim and Lisa dive into a pair of Stella Prize nominees: Ellena Savage's personal anthology Blueberries, and Laura Jean McKay's groundbreaking The Animals in that Country.

This week Tim and Lisa share their thoughts on Jack Kerouac's On the Road, and the generation of literature it helped to define.

This episode, Tim and Lisa each take on

This week Tim and Lisa jumped into Tar June Winch's Miles Franklin winner The Yield, and Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward.

On this leg of the journey to Book Island, Lisa and Tim check out some of the supports that the contemporary fantasy genre is built on. While Tim takes on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Lisa decided to check out George RR Martin's first novel in the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series, A Game of Thrones.

This week, Lisa and Tim fall into some Russian classics. Lisa takes on Tolstoy's inimicable Anna Karenina, while Tim struggles through Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground.

This week Lisa and Tim navigate the depths of Jane Harper's latest novel, The Survivors, and Evie Wyld's gothic The Bass Rock.

This week Lisa and Tim dive into award-winning author Trent Dalton's latest novel, All Our Shimmering Skies, to see if it lives up to the hype... and how it compares to Dalton's first work, Boy Swallow's Universe.

This time Lisa and Tim are thrilled to read some horror specials, under the blankets, where the monsters won't get us...Happy Halloween.

This week Tim and Lisa dive into books recently adapted for the screen. Lisa picks up Ian Reid's I'm Thinking of Ending Things, while Tim takes on Sci-Fi classic Dune.

This episode, Lisa and Tim talk through their favourite books, writers, and breakdown their reading experience!

This week Tim and Lisa take on a couple of modern coming of age tales... with Lisa re-living her teens with Stephanie Myers' Twlight, and Tim reading Craig Silvey's Jasper Jones.

This week Tim explored the stars with Max Barry's latest Sci-Fi tome, Providence, while Lisa devoured Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winning The Nickel Boys... all while maintaining social distancing.

This episode, Lisa and Tim sit down with Ross Watkins, author of The Apology, to talk reading and writing for both adults and children, and more.

This week Lisa and Tim unearth some more Australian gold, with Stone Sky Gold Mountain by South-East Queensland writer Mirandi Riwoe, and Australian poet John Kinsella's Hollow Earth.

This week Tim and Lisa explore the depths of Science Fiction and Fantasy - with Jeff VanderMeer's Annhiliation, and the brand new The City We Became by Nebula/Huga Award-Winning NK Jemisin.

This week Tim and Lisa sat down with local South East Queensland Writer Melanie Myers to talk about everything from her novel, Meet Me at Lennons, to creative writing degrees, and more.

Melanie Myers is a local South East Queensland writer. We spoke to her about the creative arts, COVID-19's impact on creatives and university staff, and her debut novel Meet Me at Lennon's. Here's a preview of the interview.

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This week Tim and Lisa do their best to read as many Cormac McCarthy books as they can... and then throw out a hot take on Sally Rooney's Normal People.

This episode, Tim and Lisa tackle a new challenge: re-reading books they didn't like the first time. While Lisa tried to get back into Bret Easton Elis's White, Tim picked Bobby Hall's Supermarket back up.

This week, Lisa and Tim review two classic novels: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan!

This week, Lisa and Tim take a long hard look at two works recently long-listed for the Stella Prize: short story collection Here Until August by Josephine Rowe, and Jess Hill's non-fiction See What You Made Me Do.

This week, Tim and Lisa explore the shoals of their mutual favourite actor, in Michael Caine's memoir 'Blowing the Bloody Doors Off.'

This week Lisa and Tim tackle their Christmas reading pile, reviewing Find Me by Andrè Aciman, and Widow's Welcome by D.K. Fields.

This week Lisa and Tim review award winning novels: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, and Call Me Evie by J.P. Pomare.

This week Lisa and Tim review books by Australian authors: Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar, Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, and All The Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld.